I knew it his senior year of high school.
His father called and told me about it right after he got his wife knocked up
I tried to tell you a month ago: https://www.on3.com/boards/threads/next-seasons-lineup.1427820/page-2#post-28077837
I was told back or the draft. Not portal…
He's 21 and draft eligible. You almost have to go pro if you want any chance of making the big leagues. I don't know anything, but I just assumed he'd be gone but hoped he'd be back.
Nah a lot of those older guys are staying and skipping a few levels now… but him being more of a fringe type you may be right. If he a top 10 guy, you’ve gotta go now, I didn’t think he’d be a top 10 guy, but maybe he is.
Again you are totally clueless. Don’t try to talk sports with anyone on the board. Go back to making your posts how your on the ledge
No his was high school. Point was trying to be made is that kids with upside do stick around for better money
It's a lot different for an 18-year old HS kid to go to college than for a 21-year old JR to wait another year. The clock is ticking and you've probably already developed about as much as you're going to at the college level. It's time to make baseball your full-time job if you're serious about making the majors.
21 college junior yes. 21 year old draft eligible sophomore.. can wait.. and can benefit to waiting. The sec is as good as A ball or even AA.
No. It's not. If it were, you'd see almost every SEC starter in the pros and you wouldn't see SEC players taking time to adjust to the minors like Tanner Allen. And half your games in college are against teams from worse conferences than the SEC. There are some A/AA caliber players in the SEC, but not many who are at that level while still in college.
Disagree. I’ve been to quite a few low level minor league games and division 1 games…
I don't say this often, but you're just wrong on this one. There are a lot of A/AA quality players in the SEC (or at least will develop into that quality), but there's a lot that are starting in the SEC who will never sniff minor league ball at any level. EVERY player in even Class A ball is at least equal to an average SEC starter.
Again totally disagree. class A ball is littered with 18-19 year old kids that have skills but aren’t good players yet. There are plenty of A ball players that couldn’t sniff the sec
Great, so now we only have 7 position players to replace. Losing players but can't run our coach off with a mop and a bucket of ****.
SEC has a lot of 18-19 year old kids who don't have the skills AND aren't good players yet. I'm sure there are some Class A players who maybe couldn't play for a Tennessee. But could definitely play for a Mississippi State, Auburn, Mississippi or Missouri.
And there are more than a handful of kids starting that are ready for AA or even the big leagues if money wasn’t an issue. Class A ball doesn’t have any of those floating around… you won’t see cags or skenes or condon or beam or those guys floating around class A… and there lies the big difference
Those are VERY few SEC players in any given year. But yes, there are absolutely players in the SEC who are at least AA level in the SEC. No doubt about it. But they’re the exception. Even a player like Tanner Allen took 2 full years to get promoted to AA, and is still there another year later. And he was an elite SEC player.
Feel free to use tanner allen as a guide if you want.. Allen was put in high A ball after playing 60 minors league games. He struggled, had he been successful he would have been immediately been promoted to AA… but Allen has shown to be nothing but a bust, he’s a terrible example to use. His beer drinkjng and hunting couldnt be done as often when you have to play every day.. and it showed
Best 50 SEC players you maybe could. Where is last years all-SEC team playing this year & how are they doing? But top 50 SEC players is still only the top 20% of SEC players who actually get significant playing time. Most are not that good. I bring up T Allen because in his interview during the Gov Cup game, he made it clear low A-AA ball is a big step up from the SEC. Said you saw players that good in SEC, but most weren’t.
Thought it was something more along the lines of the mental side of the game. The sec was a fastball heavy league and he wasn’t getting the fastballs he usually did.
We’re not arguing about the best SEC players. We agree there. We’re arguing about the bottom 50% who are not Class A caliber. Not to mention the half of your schedule you play against teams from much weaker leagues. Also, huge difference in being a full-time baseball player vs a 20-hour per week player.
